One of the most striking changes to EU privacy law under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (which goes into effect May 25, 2018) is the very strict approach to user consent. For many years, companies operating in...more
12/19/2017
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Spoiler Alert: Behavioral advertising companies will find some bad news in the guidance.
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) advisory group, which will soon become the more transparently-named (and very powerful) European...more
10/25/2017
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The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) has released a brief updated statement on the final form of the Privacy Shield adequacy decision and supporting annexes. WP29 is an important advisory group made up of representatives of...more
While it’s making few headlines, the European Commission is still working to finalize Privacy Shield, and it’s even possible that Privacy Shield will pass a key hurdle by the end of this month. The Commission is still...more
UPDATE: The Article 29 Working Party has released surprisingly brief comments on Privacy Shield. Consistent with the press briefing held on April 13, 2016, WP29 has concluded that Privacy Shield falls short without providing...more
Now that the EU Commission has published the complete version of its draft decision adopting the EU-US Privacy Shield program, it’s time for the key reviewers to dig in. I don’t mean the lawyers, or EU privacy advocates, or...more
The European Commission has finally made the draft text of the EU-US Privacy Shield program available... The Privacy Shield program, which was agreed to in principle by US and EU negotiators nearly four weeks ago, will...more
No news is not good news this time. The January 31 deadline for getting a new Safe Harbor Agreement in place came and went last weekend. Commissioner Jourova, who is leading the Safe Harbor 2.0 negotiations for the EU,...more
EU Commissioner Vera Jourova recently announced in a speech to the EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) that the Commission and the US have made substantial progress in finalizing a...more
10/28/2015
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